Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263571AbTEGPDp (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 11:03:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263578AbTEGPDp (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 11:03:45 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:9603 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263571AbTEGPDo (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 11:03:44 -0400 Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 07:07:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20030507.070729.35526280.davem@redhat.com> To: jgarzik@pobox.com Cc: hch@infradead.org, pavel@ucw.cz, arnd@arndb.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ioctl cleanups: enable sg_io and serial stuff to be shared From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20030507151203.GC3583@gtf.org> References: <20030507135600.A22642@infradead.org> <1052318339.9817.8.camel@rth.ninka.net> <20030507151203.GC3583@gtf.org> X-FalunGong: Information control. X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 866 Lines: 20 From: Jeff Garzik Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 11:12:03 -0400 On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 07:39:00AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 05:56, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Btw, if you really want to move all the 32bit ioctl compat code to the > > drivers a ->ioctl32 file operation might be the better choice.. > > I can't believe I never thought of that. :-) Likewise. That's a good idea... But, of course, name it compat_ioctl() not ioctl32. The compat layer is not only about 32-bit compatibility even though that is all that it is used for currently. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/